Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful?

Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Sep 2024 18:25:15 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel,gmane.linux.debian.ports.superh
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 08:00 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 00:10 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > I've done a new cross-build here, so you can test the packages from:
> > https://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/linux-sh4/
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> I installed the new kernel package and it seems it won't work as it's not
> an U-Boot image as required but just a plain compressed kernel image:
[...]

We never install a uImage as /boot/vmlinu[xz]-*.  From the very
beginning of the sh4 port in <https://bugs.debian.org/569034>, we've
built a zImage for this flavour even though the upstream default is a
uImage.

If it's necessary to install a uImage somewhere then that tends to be
done by flash-kernel, but I don't see any sign of sh4 support there. 
It rather seems like this board was never properly supported in Debian.

If you're interested in fixing that, then please:

- Do the uImage conversion and installation manually and test the
result.
- If it works, add a configuration for this board to flash-kernel.

Otherwise, let me know and I can delete this flavour.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed of.

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